SAPOL Setting the right example on how to drive :)

[MeLLy]

This what i observed on the way to work today...
http://s156.photobucket.com/albums/t...t=c63ddfc3.flv
So if the police are there to enforce the rules, whos going to enforce the rules when it comes to them...this is just a perfect example of a police car following to closely behind a car in the wet, my camera is on zoom btw i wasnt tailgating the police lol...Also Before i started filming the cop car was speeding and then after i finished filming we went over the birkenhead bridge and it sped over that to ignoring the 40km limit and then went onto to tail gate a truck Female driver to

[frd_crzer]

wel its cops they think that they can do what they want and that they are never in the wrong. well ive got a speed hump at the front of my house the cops think that its to go around not over that is what ****es me off coz if we go around it we get into trouble

[5L]

hahaha should you be using your phone while driving.

yeah i have seen heaps of cops doing stuff they shouldnt.
we once got a cop to do a standstill at a commodore cruise years ago. i guess he gave in to peer pressure


ahhh port adelaide police, yeah most of them cant drive anyway.

[Allen]

Nothing better than a good old fashion double standard eh?? :P

I observed a police officer on Lygon St this evening almost cause an accident, as he was talking with a mobile phone to his ear, and not paying attention to the flow of traffic...

I found that some police tailgate to try and intimidate you into speeding or making a mistake... They seem to get real ****ed off at me when they can't push me into anything or pull me over legitimatly, so they tend to illegally overtake me and pick on some other poor bastard.

Its a shame these jerks on a power trip give respectable officers a bad name.

[CaRtZ]

i usually get em tailgating me (wet or dry) and if at night, highbeams on. so i sit 5km undr the limit and be well behaved..... as i always am of corse ;)

[nommic]

I think the real crime here is whatever that music is you've got playing in the car :

[Christiaan]

Umm, that was christina aguleira. Best ever album for a car with a decent sound system. The final mixdown is first class. It's the stripped album.

Anyway, back to the police, I think they were ****ed at the driver for not getting out of their way? You shouldn't drive in the right lane like that for more than you need to. People seem to have forgotten what a right lane is for...

[5L]

yeah i know you are suppose to sit in the right lane, but its fun stirring up the port adelaide police.

[DEVL-XR]

I've seen a police car come up to a roundabout, but instead of going right around the roundabout to come back down the same street he came from, he did a U turn around the short way, so really he was going the wrong way around a roundabout.
What still amazes me is that he did this right outside TAFE where a heap of people were standing, including me.

[Nashy86]

Yesterday I saw a divvy van on Glenferrie Rd in Hawthorn (for the non-melbournians its a fairly heavily used road, has tram lines on it and a train station right next to it, so very busy road) with a mirror ball hanging off their mirror.The ball was a little bigger than a tennis ball and hung about 25-30cm down on a piece of string attached to the mirror. I could have sworn i read somewhere on these forums about people being booked for that.

Also the other day I was in the right hand lane on the front row at a set of traffic lights, and a Blue VZ SS pulled up in the left hand lane next to me. All of a sudden, when we were still facing a red light and the (heavy) traffic was flowing past us on the road we were waiting to cross, it pulled a u bolt across the front of me (basically pulling into the intersection on a red light when the traffic was moving). I was ready to get on the horn and hurl some abuse out the window when I saw that the driver was in uniform, but I couldn't believe he did it, especially without turning on the party lights or even doing it cautiously, he just booted it and went. crazy!

Stuff like this happens too often i reckon, but not much ya can do!

[mcflux]

Originally Posted by shuresm58

Umm, that was christina aguleira. Best ever album for a car with a decent sound system. The final mixdown is first class. It's the stripped album.

Sounds like we have an EOI regarding the Winter Merchandise :P

[MeLLy]

it is a good album .i would of turned it down more but i was kind of in a hurry to get this on film :P...

[gngtho]

Ok heres one for the books, my mates and i decided to go to the Anzac Highway Kmart all Adelaide people know were it is, anyway a patrol car decided to check us out, we got to talking with him for a while and the conversation of if cop cars bag up came up, well he decided to show us, and yes they do bag up, and the thing is he was in his mid 40's i was amazed, that a officer of his age just set the standard on how to bag up a patrol car.

[MeLLy]

LOL
i was at that very same car park a few years back with two other cars and it was about 3 in the morning, we were standing around talking and a patrol car comes up, pulls up next to us and checks all our plates.Then the female officer and her male passenger gets out and comes over to us, without even saying a hello she comes straight up to me and says "open your boot" i was like "why?" and shes like " it doesnt matter why just open it" so i do, she looks around finds nothing and simply closes it.
On to the next car "now open your boot" and my friend says "no, do u have probable suspision to be looking into my car boot? you have to have a reason and atleast tell me that reason.Do u have a warrant?" now he was being a smart *** but technically he was right they have to atleast tell u the reason for their suspision.Now the female cop goes closer to him and yells into his ear "OPEN YOUR BOOT OR I WILL OPEN IT FOR YOU" so he goes "fine". So smiling this female copper gets to open it but the smile soon fades away as she realises what shes looking for isnt in there. Then onto the next car, My other friends decided just to show them whats in their boot, which in their case they had just come from their uncles place who owns a shop and they had all this bread and stuff in their boot so they quickly told the officer their story and opened the boot. The officer turns around dissapointed gets back into her car and drives off, till this day we still dont know what they were looking for.

[gngtho]

Originally Posted by MeLLy

LOL
i was at that very same car park a few years back with two other cars and it was about 3 in the morning, we were standing around talking and a patrol car comes up, pulls up next to us and checks all our plates.Then the female officer and her male passenger gets out and comes over to us, without even saying a hello she comes straight up to me and says "open your boot" i was like "why?" and shes like " it doesnt matter why just open it" so i do, she looks around finds nothing and simply closes it.
On to the next car "now open your boot" and my friend says "no, do u have probable suspision to be looking into my car boot? you have to have a reason and atleast tell me that reason.Do u have a warrant?" now he was being a smart *** but technically he was right they have to atleast tell u the reason for their suspision.Now the female cop goes closer to him and yells into his ear "OPEN YOUR BOOT OR I WILL OPEN IT FOR YOU" so he goes "fine". So smiling this female copper gets to open it but the smile soon fades away as she realises what shes looking for isnt in there. Then onto the next car, My other friends decided just to show them whats in their boot, which in their case they had just come from their uncles place who owns a shop and they had all this bread and stuff in their boot so they quickly told the officer their story and opened the boot. The officer turns around dissapointed gets back into her car and drives off, till this day we still dont know what they were looking for.

Heres another one we were in this little park at Clovelly park of south road and a cop comes and cheks the cars, nothing in mine i was a good boy, buut in my mates they found two pund in his car, now get this in front of us one pund went in this bag and they wrote on it the other went under thier front seat, and this is no joke, at the time i was into the wacky tebacy, and can still remember the smurky grin on their face, this is going back 8 years.

[EBII Ghia]

Originally Posted by shuresm58

Umm, that was christina aguleira. Best ever album for a car with a decent sound system. The final mixdown is first class. It's the stripped album.

Anyway, back to the police, I think they were ****ed at the driver for not getting out of their way? You shouldn't drive in the right lane like that for more than you need to. People seem to have forgotten what a right lane is for...

Not technically:
From the SA drivers handbook:
Keeping Left
When driving on any unlaned
road, you must keep your vehicle
as near as practicable to the far
left edge of the road, except:
• when about to make or making
a right turn; or
• when overtaking another
vehicle.
On a road marked with two or
more lanes for traffic travelling in
the same direction, if the speed
limit is higher than 80km/h, or
on any road that has a Keep Left
Unless Overtaking sign, you must
not drive in the right lane except:
• when overtaking another
vehicle;
• when turning or about to turn
to the right and you are giving
a right indicating signal;
• when avoiding an obstruction;
or
• when the other lanes are
congested.

So on a road under 80Ks you can sit in whatever lane you like. :

[LTDHO]

Originally Posted by EBII Ghia

Not technically:
From the SA drivers handbook:
On a road marked with two or
more lanes for traffic travelling in
the same direction, if the speed
limit is higher than 80km/h, or
on any road that has a Keep Left
Unless Overtaking sign, you must
not drive in the right lane except:
• when overtaking another
vehicle;
• when turning or about to turn
to the right and you are giving
a right indicating signal;
• when avoiding an obstruction;
or
• when the other lanes are
congested.

So on a road under 80Ks you can sit in whatever lane you like. :

In Victoria it's different. We don't nbeed the sign as it applies to all rads sign posted 80kph or higher.

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by EBII Ghia

So on a road under 80Ks you can sit in whatever lane you like. :

Technically yes... but why be like that

There's rules and requirements... and then there's "better practice". Why sit in the right lane "just because you can"??

It is undisputable that better practice is "keep as far left as practicle".

So am i the only one who picks up on the irony of criticising someone's driving behaviour in wet conditions whilst driving and filming with a mobile phone in said conditions?

[EBII Ghia]

Originally Posted by 4.9 EF Futura

Technically yes... but why be like that

Because I can. :